Kubernetes Contracts in Croydon

Kubernetes (k8s)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon requiring Kubernetes skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Kubernetes over the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 4 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 0
Contract jobs citing Kubernetes 25 41 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 30.86% 33.61% 27.39%
As % of the Systems Management category 75.76% 74.55% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 34 32
10th Percentile £458 £363 £496
25th Percentile £463 £475 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £525 £588
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% -10.64% -2.08%
75th Percentile £633 £612 £725
90th Percentile £741 £630 -
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £560
% change year-on-year -4.76% -6.25% -6.67%

All Systems Management Skills
Croydon

Kubernetes falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 33 55 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 40.74% 45.08% 40.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 48 52
10th Percentile £446 £363 £468
25th Percentile £463 £465 £492
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +2.50% -16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £567 £649
90th Percentile £738 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £495 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -3.04% +2.10% -13.04%

Kubernetes
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Kubernetes as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Kubernetes in Croydon

Kubernetes
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Kubernetes in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Kubernetes in Croydon

Kubernetes
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Kubernetes in Croydon over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Kubernetes in Croydon

Kubernetes
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (12.00%) Apache
3 2 (8.00%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 25 (100.00%) AWS
2 6 (24.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (24.00%) Serverless
3 4 (16.00%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (16.00%) Azure
3 4 (16.00%) GCP
3 4 (16.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (12.00%) Amazon S3
4 3 (12.00%) IaaS
4 3 (12.00%) PaaS
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (8.00%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon MSK
6 1 (4.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.00%) AWS CodePipeline
6 1 (4.00%) AWS Fargate
6 1 (4.00%) Route 53
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (12.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (12.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (12.00%) MySQL
3 2 (8.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (8.00%) GIS
3 2 (8.00%) RDBMS
3 2 (8.00%) Redis
3 2 (8.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (4.00%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Git
1 5 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 5 (20.00%) JIRA
2 4 (16.00%) GitLab
3 2 (8.00%) JMeter
3 2 (8.00%) JUnit
3 2 (8.00%) Mockito
4 1 (4.00%) SonarQube
4 1 (4.00%) Storybook
4 1 (4.00%) Vagrant
General
1 10 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (8.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (36.00%) Developer
2 8 (32.00%) Java Developer
3 7 (28.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 5 (20.00%) Java Engineer
5 4 (16.00%) Lead
6 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
6 3 (12.00%) AWS Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Principal DevOps Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (8.00%) SC Cleared Java Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (8.00%) Senior Java Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Cloud Architect
8 1 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps
8 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (40.00%) Spring
2 7 (28.00%) Kafka
3 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (16.00%) Hibernate
4 4 (16.00%) HTML
4 4 (16.00%) XML
5 3 (12.00%) Apache NiFi
5 3 (12.00%) Keycloak
5 3 (12.00%) REST
6 2 (8.00%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
6 2 (8.00%) Apache Camel
6 2 (8.00%) jQuery
6 2 (8.00%) JSON
6 2 (8.00%) Web Services
6 2 (8.00%) WireMock
7 1 (4.00%) Node.js
7 1 (4.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (12.00%) PKI
3 2 (8.00%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.00%) Private Cloud
4 1 (4.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Microservices
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
2 13 (52.00%) Containerisation
3 12 (48.00%) TDD
4 10 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
5 9 (36.00%) Code Quality
5 9 (36.00%) DevOps
6 5 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
7 4 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.00%) CQRS
7 4 (16.00%) Design Patterns
7 4 (16.00%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.00%) Load Balancing
7 4 (16.00%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (16.00%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (12.00%) Data Protection
8 3 (12.00%) High Availability
8 3 (12.00%) Refactoring
8 3 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (60.00%) Java
2 8 (32.00%) Python
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 2 (8.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (8.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) Security Cleared
2 20 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) GDPR
1 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.00%) NCSC
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 15 (60.00%) Docker
2 2 (8.00%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 5 (20.00%) Ansible
3 4 (16.00%) Grafana
3 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
4 2 (8.00%) Istio
4 2 (8.00%) Kibana
5 1 (4.00%) HAProxy
5 1 (4.00%) Puppet
5 1 (4.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (8.00%) Splunk
3 1 (4.00%) Confluent
3 1 (4.00%) Microsoft